global warming

SOUTH ARI ATOLL, Maldives — There were startling colors here just a year ago, a dazzling array of life beneath the waves. Now this Maldivian reef is dead, killed by the stress of rising ocean temperatures. What’s left is a haunting expanse of gray, a scene repeated in reefs across the globe in what has...

MOSCOW — A new research paper drafted by Australian scientists states that if our planet’s current carbon-emission trends continue to rise, “the hottest year on record globally in 2015 could be just another average year by 2025.” The document was released the same day as the Paris Climate Change Agreement, a pact signed by the